Posted on 10/29/2021 6:46:57 AM PDT by Enlightened1
White employees of AT&T have been told to read an article saying that they are racist, are told to confess to their 'white privilege' and acknowledge 'systemic racism,' and must engage with set texts or else they will be penalized in their performance reviews.
AT&T, in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder, introduced an internal program called Listen Understand Act.
John Stankey, the CEO of AT&T, wrote to the company's 230,000 employees in an April 2021 email, obtained by journalist Christopher Rufo and published on his website.
Stankey, who took over as CEO in July 2020, urged his workers to make the most of the resources provided by AT&T's anti-racism portal.
'As individuals, we can make a difference by doing our part to advance racial equity and justice for all,' he wrote.
'If you are looking for tools to better educate and inform yourself on racial equality, resources are available at Listen. Understand. Act.
'We also encourage you to actively participate in our recently launched Equality First learning experience, a new initiative to increase awareness and action around our value to Stand for Equality.'
Most employees are not forced to engage with the Listen Understand Act program, but managers at AT&T are now assessed annually on diversity issues - with mandatory participation in programs such as discussion groups, book clubs, mentorship programs, and race reeducation exercises, according to Rufo's source.
The source told Rufo that employees are asked to sign a loyalty pledge to 'keep pushing for change.' They are encouraged to sign up to 'intentions' such as 'reading more about systemic racism' and 'challenging others' language that is hateful.'...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Gee, who founded AT&T, which has been around for over 130 years? Just some guys exercising their privilege, including Alexander Graham Bell.
People still use AT&T?
it’s a very old fight. Probably never conclusively won.
Sir Thomas Moore, Silence gives assent.
Not good enough. Mere tolerance is not enough.
You MUST honestly and deeply love Big Brother,
AND you must convince the tyrant’s tools that
you truly and deeply believe to the depths of
your soul in Big Brother.
THAT is the coming fight. There will be no one
left out. It’s a binary thing.
If you fight back or seek to just be ignored
you must be — and will be — destroyed.
Disgusting we see this in 2021.
This is what happens when you don’t have an opposition party. The GOP surrendered decades ago in the culture wars and this is the result. It’s only going to get worse.
this photo and caption says it all. Thank u!!!
Aw geez. I have been thinking about switching from AT&T Internet service to some other provider, and now I’m simply going to.... This also means that I’ll probably have to go back to either Xfinity or maybe Dish for TV service, since I currently have DirecTV, which is also an AT&T property. I hate these “woke” turds.
Wall Street owns the beltway swamp. Lock, stock and barrel.
The GOP needs to govern in a patriotic manner. Return dirty money donations and hang up on their lobbyists. Once the corporations see that this course of action doesn’t pay they will stop. That will never happen, of course.
Will be difficult to ditch at&t. A majority of cell towers in USA are owned by at&t, regrettably
Wall Street is like the Arthur Jensen character in “Network”....
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it!! Is that clear?! You think you’ve merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!
You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU WILL ATONE!
Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?
You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state — Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality — one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.
Welcome
I do. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. There are 9 families on my little road and only two of us can even get internet from ATT. The rest were told there was not enough room on the DSL. They go satellite.
Our county here in Ga is proposing to give ATT millions to bring fiber optics to everyone. I hope it’s me because the satellite does not work most of the time.
I am ready to switch from AT&T phone service today. Can anyone suggest a good non-woke alternative? (I already cut the cord on cable.)
Regrettably an affirmative answer to your question may not exist. Regrettably
I think you’ll find they are majority owned/maintained by SBA, Crown Castle and/or American Tower. The carriers lease space on the towers so they don’t have to pay union labor to maintain and multi-tenant towers are more cost-effective.
CEO instituted a hostile workplace environment.
Sue Sue Sue
Checked earlier and am reporting what the web states
American Tower
American Tower owns 40.6k towers in the United States, which represents 23% of the company’s total, of 179k towers globally.
Crown Castle owns 40.1k towers in the United States, which represents 100% of the company’s total. Crown Castle does not operate cellular towers internationally.
SBA Communications owns 16.5k towers in the United States, which represents 50% of the company’s total, of 32.7k towers globally.
And this: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/at-t-sells-and-leases-towers-to-crown-castle-4-85b-deal
Is the web lying about at&t ? Who knows ?
And when he did not serve a purpose, you see what happened to Beale.
Regarding ATT, my BIL worked there and told me long ago they wished to get out of the POTS business and go Hollywood. I asked what is POTS and he said the plain old telephone system.
When I watch the ATT golf tourney and see those corporate clowns playing golf with their 1 handicap and making like 20 million a year I wonder whom is watching the store. How does one run a multi billion company and get to the level of a scratch golfer unless they have the time to do it? Lastly, when was the last time I saw a senior corporate ATT official who was a minority, well, like never. Do as I say, not as I do. BTW, I am not talking about some senior senior VP for diversity BS.
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